The 2024 Olympics in Paris, France, has been nothing short of controversial to say the least; and last night the criticism of the world spectacle was cranked up another notch when a biological male stepped into the boxing ring with a female and dispatched the woman in under a minute with just a few punches after the female submitted defeat when those punches hurt her.
Italy’s Angela Carini quit the bout after 46 seconds of the first round after being hit with several punches by her opponent Imane Khelif of Algeria. Khelif had previously failed a gender test and was barred from competing at the 2023 world championship.
As reported by Yahoo! Sports, Carini told her coach that her nose hurt too much for her to continue. Her coach urged her to continue and get through the first round, but after Khelif landed another punch across her face Carini raised her hand and called it quits.
Coach Emanuel Renzini recalled her saying, “She’s too strong.” Carini would later tearfully apologize to the people of Italy for ending the bout the way that she did.
I had entered the ring to fight. I didn’t give up, but a punch hurt too much and so I said enough. I go out with my head held high.
I have never been hit so hard in my life. It’s up to the IOC to judge.
She lamented during the post-fight interview
Eventually Khelif took to social media to praise Allah saying, “Elhamdoliah, first victory.”
A number of professional boxers and MMA fighters took to social media to condemn the fight.
However, some patrons have pointed out that in other statements Carini still refers to Khelif as a “she/her.” One wrote: “This is the 3rd female to have fought Kehlif and said those exact words that “her” punches were like nothing they’ve felt before.” Another said, “Yup let them fight dudes until they call them what they are.”
Nearly a year ago retired MMA legend Jorge “Gamebred” Masvidal was asked on a podcast how many women it would take to defeat him. He then referenced Amanda Nunes, who he trained with on occasion, who is widely regarded as the greatest Women’s MMA fighter of all-time, said that he would tell “bottom of the barrel” men who fought in the UFC to take it easy on her.
Masvidal explained that there is a clear and distinct difference in the speed, power, explosiveness, and how much pain a man can take versus a woman. But to answer the original question, Masvidal jokingly said that it would take an “infinite” number of women who don’t know what they are doing to best him.
Yahoo provided some additional context on Carini’s opponent, which mainstream press refers to as a “she/her,” along with another biological male, Lin Yu-ting, representing Taiwan, who will be competing against women fighters.
Khelif’s thoroughly dominant showing on Thursday will only inflame the debate over whether she and Chinese Tapei’s Lin Yu‑ting should be allowed to compete at the Paris Olympics. Last year, at the World Boxing Championships in New Delhi, Khelif was disqualified hours before her gold-medal bout as a result of International Boxing Association rules that prevent athletes with XY chromosomes from competing in women’s events. The IBA disqualified Yu-Ting before her bronze medal bout for the same reason.
The International Olympic Committee has since stripped the IBA of its status as the global governing body for boxing because of long-running governance issues and a series of judging scandals. That leaves boxing in Paris under the umbrella of the IOC’s Paris 2024 Boxing unit, which has more relaxed rules than the IBA and has chosen to disregard the results of Khelif’s and Yu-Ting’s gender eligibility tests last year.
When asked about Khelif and Yu-ting on Tuesday, IOC spokesperson Mark Adams said, “I would just say that everyone competing in the women’s category is complying with the competition eligibility rules. They are women in their passports.”
“These athletes competed many times before for many years,” Adams added. “They didn’t just suddenly arrive.”
In a statement released Wednesday, the IBA explained that the disqualifications, “made after a meticulous review,” were the results of two tests conducted on both athletes, the first during the 2022 IBA World Boxing Championships in Istanbul, the second during aforementioned 2023 world championships.
“While IBA remains committed to ensuring competitive fairness in all of our events, we express concern over the inconsistent application of eligibility criteria by other sporting organizations, including those overseeing the Olympic Games,” the IBA said in its statement. “The IOC’s differing regulations on these matters, in which IBA is not involved, raise serious questions about both competitive fairness and athletes’ safety.”
Khelif was escorted past reporters by her coaches after Thursday’s fight and did not stop to talk. Only a day earlier, Algeria’s Olympic committee released a statement strongly condemning “the unethical targeting and maligning” of Khelif by foreign media outlets.
“Such attacks on her personality and dignity are deeply unfair, especially as she prepares for the pinnacle of her career at the Olympics,” the statement read.
Prior to Thursday’s fight, Italian officials publicly questioned the fairness of the IOC allowing Khelif to compete. Many people pressured Carini not to fight, Renzini said, telling the Italian boxer, “Don’t go, don’t go, please. She’s a man. It’s dangerous for you.”
When asked his opinion whether Khelif should be allowed to compete against women, Renzini was diplomatic.
“It’s not my decision,” he said. “I wouldn’t want to be in those shoes because I think it’s a very difficult decision.”
Before concerns about her eligibility emerged, Khelif drew attention primarily for the obstacles that she has overcome.
Khelif grew up in a rural village in Western Algeria, the sort of place where not everyone thinks sports are fit for girls. Not even her own father initially approved when she took up boxing, Khelif has said in previous interviews.
Boxing was such a passion for Khelif that she was willing to travel 10 kilometers by bus every day from her tiny village to the nearest boxing gym. To raise money for bus fare, she sold scrap metal for recycling and her mother sold couscous.
Khelif ascended quickly in her sport, finishing tied for fifth at the Tokyo Olympics in the women’s lightweight division. She then claimed gold at the 2022 African championships in the light welterweight division and silver at the world championships that same year.
The punching power of Khelif is what stands out from this widely circulated video of her December 2022 bout with Mexico’s Brianda Tamara. It’s difficult to watch the repeated blows that Tamara endured before the fight was stopped.
“When I fought with her, I felt very out of my reach,” Tamara wrote last year on X. “Her blows hurt me a lot, I don’t think I had ever felt like that in my 13 years as a boxer, nor in my sparring with men. Thank God that day I got out of the ring safely.”
Khelif is not the first athlete to face scrutiny as a result of a gender equity test. South African middle-distance runner Caster Semenya, a two-time Olympic champion, has been the unwilling face of this issue for more than a decade.
As for Lin Yu-ting, defenders of his are saying he is “a true powerhouse of a human being targeted by a witch hunt.”
According to a post on Medium, “In between domestic and overseas competitions, the student-boxer is also studying at Fu Jen Catholic University’s Graduate Institute of Business Administration.”
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
Proverbs 27:8 As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place.
Proverbs 26:7 The legs of the lame are not equal: so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
My goodness, must we keep relearning this lesson over and over again? Men and women are not equal, we are not the same; we never have been and never will be. There are things that God designed men to do and be, and there are attributes that God designed women to do and be, and neither should be despised. But guess what? When you step outside the boundaries and roles that the Lord specifically gave to men and women things will ALWAYS result terribly.
On top of that, dare we ask the question lest I get stoned for this, but why, ladies, would you want to get punched in the face for a living, regardless if it’s a man or a woman doing it to you? You want equal rights for that? Well, you got what you paid for…
When you do this in public, this is called physical abuse or labeled as being a wifebeater, but now it’s okay inside a sanctioned arena and call it sport.
And yet elitist puppet Katy Perry wants to sing and parade around naked about this being a “women’s world,” and they are “divine feminine” “superhumans” that are to dominate this planet. Yeah, how’s that working out for you? Miserable, broke, hopeless, treated like a piece of meat. Was it worth it?
1 Corinthians 11:3 But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God. [7] For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man. [8] For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man. [9] Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man. [10] For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the angels. [11] Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord. [12] For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman; but all things of God.
Honestly though, let’s be real here: are you surprised by this? What did you expect? Did you see the opening ceremony for the Olympics this year? Did you see the drags passing the torch before the games began? With a perverse opening such as that, should we be surprised that even more abominations were on display?
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People are also saying that this is another sign of Western implosion, and while that’s undeniably true, let’s also remember that Algeria is a north African country, and Taiwan is a Chinese island. At this point this filth is everywhere.
Every year this stuff gets worse and worse. Some people complain about the problems, but everyone just puts up with it and doesn’t demand anything different, and henceforth why we are on this continual cascade into the bottomless pit.
Isaiah 5:20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! [21] Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight! [22] Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink: [23] Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him! [24] Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel. [25] Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcases were torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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EXACTLY!!! Things that are different aren’t the same!!!
I am not sure what to say. They did want equality after all.
Jeremiah 7:19-20
19 Do they provoke me to anger? saith the Lord: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?
20 Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, mine anger and my fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.
These people that advocate for this lunacy are so wicked and confused, at this point even if that female boxer died they won’t budge an inch with their twisted ideologies.
I personally do not feel sorry for that woman, there are tons of real world information about why this is wrong in so many angles, no one has an excuse. If she didn’t get spanked as a child hopefully those hard punches knocked some sense into her.
Proverbs 23:13
Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.